Jayalalithaa may campiagn for SP in UP

"Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav have invited me to campaign. I will consider it," she told reporters.

AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Thursday did not rule out the possibility that she may campaign in support of the Samajwadi Party in next year's elections to the Uttar Pradesh assembly.

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"(Samajwadi Party leaders) Amar Singh and (Chief Minister) Mulayam Singh Yadav have invited me to campaign. I will consider it," she told reporters.

Softening her approach towards Congress president Sonia Gandhi, whom she had attacked during the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls in 2004, Jayalalithaa said she only had objections to Gandhi taking up the prime ministership and was not against her as an individual.

"When she has not taken up the prime ministership, I don't have any reason to oppose her," she said.

Asked whether she was hinting at the possibility of a political realignment by softening her approach to Gandhi, she said the time had not come to elaborate on this issue.

Dubbing the Indo-US nuclear deal as a move to "undermine the sovereignty of the country", she said India should not be a signatory to any initiative that would jeopardise the future of its people.